Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1873, Page 3

to nel looked abs. Rédder than ever hi< her Harder tian ever He » riggied bi Tut kn es Is the Siliest thing’ - see: — WE FOUR. o be Ling tor we t over every- Ung in conclave, because we thing, tr mere freot vn the former), but seemed te be more im con c\ave than usual. No wonder either when the absorbing topte wnder disenstion was the ap- | have Pruposal of marriage for Joan, from | a! proach fax Carew—not that we were on We did so it was omly Hie was only @ seconl almost as goo! as ne rel an Youch that none of bt of him as a cousin. deay was satiering so acutely from the reac- ti consequent upon her recent Buin irg hat she dit not work, or even pret She only sat idly staring at as she enlarged upon her yisit to married sister of Max; tokl us how Max himsely had com to take her to see some new lion, aud ty night ha@escorted ber to the opera, or rt, or theater. While Joan rehearsed pations of bers, and sighed over th <don, Dorothy and Patience ami the ¢ w anse he was ever eidn't care # bit aboutthem ail im the way or ious. We bad had our turns in El and th we had never hal tales of his devotic bring back as Joan had new. (amd we all knew it,) we would sooner @ie than recall the fact aloud before her. of cours. we resented it a little—tuat was on'y hatural—but nething showed thie except an in- creased attention to their sewing. ant a de- creased attention toJoan'’snarrations. I gleaned ene amiable little pleasure to myself. W. ever Joan by i the poi introdaeiny gestive attention from Max, I would my needic amd make a general aud nor T jengen y wid turn to Patience ant th some sewing qu “1 t towither of ix have chosen Joan bet n either Dorothy, or Patien She was by no incanis te most attrac She wasn’t fa! ; ‘tha ree of us ought to heve There wax Dorotiuy, census men, for the figures jumbled ap ina mauner w having a lowering was Patience oppositeber, upright in her chair: sh family, as every one knew—as she kiv rate. Ami there was myself on Joai quite on the shady side ef twenty, wh Badn't reached y Why, of course, w ought to have been married before her. we had pow to entertain the es ect g at her wediling first of ah. tt ; wany the least of it. Yet the f point.too. It wa . than none. We grown-up sisters for a good m (the worst of Max was ihat he Acw-Tany years—cousins always know th wupleasent th and it was growing sam Four was such an alarming number. ter all, it was a thing to thank Providence that Max was going to marry one of us; thoush I know in my own mind that Providence wo: Bave been more heartily thauked if Max wo Lave married me, or next best to me—one of cur elders, «What's the matter, Barbara tience, suddenly, I suppose becanse she saw iny eyebrows raised und my mouth down at the cor- ners, “Twas thinking what a goo thing it is that there is the probability of Max marrying one of us. We are such an overwhelming number. It must require superhuman courage in a man to propose to one of four marriagenble sisters, he must fee! like proposing to them all.”” “Why is it,” mused Dorothy, putting in her needle very deliberately, ‘tlaat four should seem such enormous number when it bears upon unmarried sisters? We shall not seem even half so many when we are three.” vt ” « ch coukin't hell them. Then t as usaal, i went totea tis | drous bindness. kept 4 proposajof marriage to the choice | a new bonnet, (the lafter event of much on at | day from his chambers in the | ed away all the harder, fust to show we | | hens n Max had been pleasumt amd atten-@ oh | Went bodily i | at least Ff v Twon er which of us le he coming botee_-Dore- thy, Lexpeet- Dorothy smiled at the idea. BuiiiPatience! looked mnutterable discernment about whom she thought it more natagal Re should cume to see. s a Then, after a rood while, we fell back int; saute guia cg tttan preach 3 we didn’ see. vi toour mgehahtcr the only' wb vad to be theoming, we were too fond of ether to et the p: Pee pds regnets too fond of ourselves not to be ae ware that the magriage of one—even thong! st one must Lat ken orga ay bea benefit to all. So wa ca it allasa Pages es 4 Joan, a T Own priv nions. dtesees of both bride and. brides: 5 ged to our eldest the Erin the new brother in ow. ‘Then we b goed appetites, and @ bed with mithuds. . Any day next Week might Max jf 2 lar @ Monday 1 to expect aid not ¥ toour special expectations; 1 preparations were surreptitious! every reason now to feel that not understand tain unacknowledged but who, respecting the'mo- ing which ehgenders wou the —— henorably. brought from Edinburg a glowing t come into fashion, and had bedi ote with pink tramings admired. This narrative had- and from that time I ne actare of a On! the heartbirnings [saffered wore beard in the pe while L - i therewith a lapfubof ribben-emls and loops, and an open haudbox at my feet Tearly to swallow the materials en masse on the approach of pry'g eyes. But, above all things, oh! the nervousnes* of appearing in it first on that Monday evening fast Barube the toate trout Edinburgh was due, for of course it would never done to keep it perd until Max h n have had sudde irle Interehanged for the whole evening. 1 could t, so [ boldly put it on and went assumiug an expression as, but was ily utter~ some very irrelevant observations for the purpose of tarning every one's attention from my and startling garment. But the remar¢ expression of countenance were alike sing failures. 1 might just as well have in exclaiming, at the top of my voice, .ook kere! Look ai my new apron! I mad3 | myself, insecret, and at great expense; an! no earthly ry en but to captivate Max,” [ might just ax well have said it ont in that way ia full, so plainly was it repeated in all the faees. is! The more I tried to eye them dowa bt ‘ance, the more fhe six eyes Cae at p in upon at fe ‘he bows grew limp under the trying scra- y- [hopelessly felt that nosach a caricatar> 4 person ever before rushed into their mirlst (to No purpose) with an irrelevant obser- vation. The apron grew to my disordered Jan- ugly and enormous, and 1 could with sn- prem: action to myself bave pitched it on the fire. But them what a defeat that woubt have heen; and after all Max had admired en» inst like it. If Leould bat just live down this tirst ordeal, preseutly, perhaps, my Dolly Var- fen wo assume its nataral equilibddum. [ ly the midst of the astonished eves, and then I saw my opportunity and seized it th one coup Weil Ftook tm the fact that Patience had made au investment, too. She lasl ast a guinea’s worth of extra’ plaits on be: head this atternoon for the first time; and thes? served beautifully ansof removing ths other four glaring & m my pink bows. The plaits weren't beeo to Patience, their ness being quite evident in a strong light; lidn't mention this in consequence of the relief they had given me. “What have you got pew, Dorothy?” T asked growing presently conrageons, apr Or have you branched ont into a new * “7 have branched out into anew line,” ac- ny, good-humoredly, ‘and got * put in Patience, a little bit se- | verely, “stoop to hide my invest ments, if I w | sou, Dorothy (which was quite true, for Pa- lence never poped.) And we did upon the grate kettle, wit word more, though there the little drawing-room china handle, whieh she been morning on purpose to buy. Iways was Dorothy's weak point, ‘0 ve very keen in appre- the convenient or elegant appliances of bat week, at the same time, ‘tor Max; m our plaits and h tea Laid for five, and the ttle singing om the trivet. an didn’t don anything new; but then she good cause, and, besides that, made up for way. She had good canse thus. » mply provided with everything 'w tor her visit to Edinburgh; and, as she felt se were the very dresses which had cap- tivated Max, what need had she for others? Atl she made up tor it in this way. All the | week she devoted herself to beautifying our inquired Pa- | garden, in anticipation of the admiration it would win from Max, when she could say in her sort voice, and with her provokingly pretty, ebilish airs, “I mana; garden, Max.” What a joke that gardening was to me—looking on—and how delighted 1 was to see that she ex- pemled upon it twenty times as much manual labor as had exhausted me over my Dolly Var- | den. Five days out of the six passed, and the preparations had so far been wasted; except that they had grown familiar tous now, and we wore without umeomfortable consciousness. But on the Saturday morning, when we came down to breakfast, lay one of Max Carew's letters on the table—unmistakeable with its * And theothers go off so mach more easily | handsome crest and bold address, “Miss Pen- when one is married,” I put in con-olingly. ‘he married one marries off one more-of rse. That's her first duty. Then there are two houses to visit; a1 ¢ stays at each. they marry directly.” «Yes, I do believe,” said Patience, with mot- itation, “that many matches are brought about through visiting « brothe ? + Itoften happens, too, an air of experience, 1 wedd ng falls in love with— The best bridesmaid. That alwa Which of us Will it be?” rted Joan, with he best man ata pedestal, looked Scornfully across at me when I male that re- mark. Of course, she would be the best bri¢ maid as far as appearance went—she knew that; bat then Patience was—well, her gotfather ant god mothe-s at her baptism had not been gifted With any remarkable presclence. “1 suppose Deruthy will be the Srst of us to | marry. She naturally ought to be,” sighed Joan, with a sentimental air of resignation for which I could have choked her, beeause she evidently felt so sure of being the first herself unnaturally. ‘No; it would he Patience first,” replied Dero- thy, with just as much resignation. int Patience sighed resignedly, too, and that under any circumstance (slie didn’t specify the cireumstances) she should be sorry to take Precedence of her elder sixter. Of course it sounded very well, but I would not like to have tested her. “They dicin’t assign me any right to be married before Joan, but if they bad I should have answered with as much selt-abnegation as they bad displayed, and sheuld have meant it just about as much. “It_was so kind of Max to bring me home, n't ity” inquired Joan, naively, and he was reful of me on the journey.” «He certainly has the knack of making things Pleasant for one," spoke Dorothy, king one pleased with onegelf as weil as with Bim.” «1 “eo oftener one sees him the better then,” sant Yes, atic he is coming next week.” “<1 supposed you coming, eh, Juan tical one of the “Quite sure,” ret lackadaisica! pose of her head; “and quite sure that be told me on the way home that he had something particular to say to us—he didn't say to me, because itwould have been so very auiar keel ‘I'm not sorry that red 1; atways the scep- ing the easant change to have a gentleman ase for a bit,” p Dorothy, with placidity. It always seemed so nice to have hi the house in Edinowrg- Was always <0 indulgent seme Amusement for me, or some clan, “I aow't think Max very uice louking,” said ee ae veering round because Juan appropriated Lim, --thongh he is passable. His month ts wide. : ’ “But, oh, bis moustache quite hides it.” ex- claimed Joan with deprecation, “and it ix sncu handsome moustache, isn’t it, “1 never particularly noticed =." sai Doro- thy, following the lead of Patience; *-a!! m hes seem the same to me—Just aset an ugty mouth. “And Carew is such a good name, isn’t inquired Joan again, with @ pitying simile at “is sso different from Pendle “Tp two volumes imstead of three. ‘That was the only retort she either elicited or deserved. ‘Then somebody said—and I cannot be snre who it was—that it would be well ferone of us to write to Max, and say that we should expect him by the afternoon train every day next week—I mean of course we eapect him every day until we saw him. uaturally ~tion arose wich should wr uppose J ought,” said Joan. compiaccut!y. hy so? asked 1, with a en w being the eldest?” proposed Duroth: ‘cepted the position under protest: after all the task was tacitly conceded to loam. Aud then and there I matte a de- termination not to heétp ber with a sin idea, asl regretted having done on many previous occasions. “I shoukl think, Joan,” said J, with great empressrment. when I had relieved my mind this resolution, “Max cannot be coming to 304, because you have been together so latel “she writes wud if one unmarried oue | sure he said he was } | side: Which was it to be’ dlethorpe. “Good gracious* T cried, with the keenest enjoyment, “t's Dorothy he m “+ Don't be a goose. Barbara,” reproved P: tiener. who had entered the room with me, now alvanced with her stately step to look over | Byshoukler. “Of course, if he writes to say | that he he would naturally address D ve no mother.” ly aiditress to her too,” < hot quite seeing why Dorothy should be laid ‘upou the sh {just yet. “Come, Dorothy, don't keep us waiting,” cried Joan; + I'm in au unbearable state of ex- citement.” But Dorothy would not hurry. T believe in | my own mind that she preferred the suspense to the certainty. So, as we saw this, we made & great eflort to bide our own eagerness, and began weakly aud abortively te talk On other topics. never remember noticing before how des- | perntely slow Dorolhy ip in tpeting alctter, "I u hought she never would have finished breaking the Seal of this one: aud, when at Jast it was broken, she deliberately ‘looked between the leaves, and turned the sheet round twice. «¢O, the signature isthere allright,” remarked Patience, just a little tartly. “What comes | before the signature 7” “ Of course, he only writes to say when he is coming,” returned Dorothy,with indifference so vernatural and unnatural that it was piaio | enough to see it was feigned. ‘+1 suppose you le: < | #t us over the paper with great aggravating en- all wait while I read fig she added, looki joy ment. “And to prove how utterly indifferent we al! | were to the contents of this absurd letter, we turned entirely away, and helped ourselves to tong mi bread and batter ad libitum—just for two moments and a half. Then somehow we found our attention concent on Dorothy, who was reading steadily now, and in utter silence. 1 couldn't help it, I didn't try, but I feel quite sure that [ couldn't have heiped it if ad tried—I went near enough debing her to teat over her shoabler, ant the first two word: faaw gave meé An extraordinary | sensation, + My wife.” My t bumped na thumped against z Sure to be lo ; it would Yet, after all, it be Patience, of eourse—which of us looked aor, thing beside Patience? Yet, why not me? could remember hundreds of flattering and af- tectionate speeches Max had made to me. It was just as likely to be— It wasn't in human power (feminine) to resist temptation any louger. While Dorothy read o not vouchsafing us a word of explanation, we | tacitly burst the bonds of polite conventionali- ty, and—one at @ time first, then all together daringly—hovered so near that we could distin- guish the words. I don’t know whether Pa- tence and Joap read it all ry oo through as 1 did, or whether they stopped dead at the first line, as I felt ineli to. All I know is that { read it through trom the ominous first line, My—pean—Coustxs, down to the fouristt after the sij ure; amd felt not at all mollitied by the performance. Dear me, coulkin’t he have chosen one to write to, and not swallowed up our individuality im such @ distasteful gulp? Well, after saying that—my dear cousins. “be said that be had hoped to be able to run over w tell us the news Limseli, but had been una. vaidably prevented. On the first of the next month he was going to marry Minnie Frere. whom Joan would recollect having met in inburg, and he was sure weshoukl give him our valuable sympathy, and kind and generous fod. wishes. His greatest desire just then, yas Songs the 4: lated to Max: expression of nce jest 2 furnisht asserting itsel wali irked out the tour, arranged th DZ p> on the Pe mtod te much, be. * conseq uen ttishly in the ver. china handie h: , but we oae cause a few mingtes Dorothy's putting it down hottest’ part of cracked ll across and fallen half away, éo that apitated cnowgh now to take away Se we went on throngh breakfast, but. as T had dismalty foreseen, that jovial statr of affairs of course {tf was (it alwavs is, say.) who made the firet «tyvace thrast fowed as a natural sequence. had got by some means (nobody seemed to touch seemed even to see ft, yet it did crop one of us_then te; and. in a weak and ungovernab spleen I spoke aloud the tho: cold wot last. ught which it sug- “What a pity it was that Max was ‘unavoida- diy preventedrouning over to tell us the news himseli.” Should not we have had a glorious opportunity of pouring out a lhation of our . y. and kind and generous good of eur expressions ! ly consins offering unlimited love by proxy 0 the wife we've every cause to bear malice agaiust—and know nothing about “J know her,” interposed Joan, with a fragile ‘but I never guessed—any- ., Max was quite tempt at a laugh cular about her. As—Was more attentive to m el & great contemy turning with unusual &@ man who behaves t whose society he may chance to be. His affec- tions are not worth wipning.”* are not worth the winning, let them go.”" said I, with quite as much magna as if the choige had been given me of either retamning or letting them go, according to my ” Patience said, ‘aciousness to Joan, for same to ever: “Well T feel relieved that he is not coming himself,” said Dorothy placidly, may seem untecling to say it. i we a solitary gentleman in the nd 0 other Visiter. wonder what the unavoidable preventive said 1; + T never knew him to hesitate about racing over the country when he chose, letting i sion wait npon his pleasure.”” fe always said it was such a treat to him to come here,” said Joan, relapsing into @ ‘ tended it was the very most enjoyable ry!” retorted Patience. tienes (whieh she hadn't) with men who pay one so much particular attention that they make one believe things quite against one’s will, you iow.” + They should be taken up for bre: constraint to house to amuse, might do it—four p damages we might g + Max's poor wife, generous, but certalnly hed Dorothy, with very wexplicable compassion, “will have a good deal to put up with; he is <o uncertain in his mind.” “T don't think him uninformed,” criticised Patience, presently, looking as if she had thor- y’s term, (which I ot.) and he can be tolerably mmst Own F di agreeable whe fortunately plain.” “If Minnie Frere, whoever she is , knew him aswell aswe know him, he would evidently —as we intended to de.” pking it just as well to pnt. it forcibly at once; and rather strack by the coin- cidence that the points we were condemnmg in Max were the very points we had particularly admired in him atew at any other time would ©, not 8o now s we rose from the table. after all the temptation proved irresistil * you are off to the garden, I suppose. 1t'will look very nice ings’ hard work. have refused hii The thought emade me laugh— iter afew more If you hadn't said you wished todo it all yourself, because you enjoyed it so much, I would offer to help you.” And, would you believe it? Joan was so weak that she went; she would not venture to step her wearisome employment suddenly, for fear ot our insinuations, aml so she took the leather the mushroom, and the implements of torture, and went out to her morning's toil ily enjoyed the idea and the When I had sufficie sight, I fetched her in, knowin; have the courage to come of Then we formed another conclave about the anwer that was to be sent to Max’s letter. One thing we unanimously agreed, that it should go by return; because, if we waited have guessed from our representa- tions that he had a strong taint of insanity ini nature) might think all bable things. she would not er own accord. » Max (and any ler to me now, in discussion, is, that no one of us questioned another as to what was me: this, all seemed to understand so we what ‘ridiculous and improbable things” he would be most likely to should certainly go! Yes, our letter y return; but—who was to “Dorothy, of course,” said Patience, “she's the eldest; and the news was sent her.” hews was sent to us all, Dorothy, hastily forfeiting the honor. it put, ‘My Dear Cousins 7” “But it was addressed -to Joan, quenching the remark, “ to answer it.” “Joan knows him best,” put in Patience, daintily satirizing the same remark made under nces a week before. ‘atience, you write the best hand,” sug- same principle, aud proud of But it fell to Dorothy after all, as was only she was obliged to atcept the aoe she coveted it. ite out a rough copy. you must all help be don't tw say, I'm sure.” “T should begin with, ‘My dear cousin, rilliant idea; which it far asit went—though Patience said that wagh't quired Dorothy, looking va- the window over the back of hee devonpert; while each one of us supported her «Perhaps, after that,” mused Patience, with ‘you had ‘better say we are glat to hear of his approaching happiness, and hope my impunity. natural; and proposed, as a «What else?” “Slowly, please.” eutreated Dorott r hard pen sei paper, “his approaching happiness, and hope eaded Dorothy ience—or somebouy—and hope he wite will accept our friendship, when “We offer it, which won't be yet.” “Go on, Dorothy Never mint, orry you could “Don't get into a tidget. ot come over to tell us the lousness of that fil! Make a postseript of it. € I remember his wife well,” said Joan, with self-abnegation, admire her; but regr * Ile should Laye chosen her. ose you must tel him t the valued sympathy aud kind and d wishes he bespeaks are his, it resumed Pa- 'Anybody’s; as they certainly aren't ours.” ikl that we hope soun to make the acy walt bgdy with more sense.” what are we to call for "t say wife again, because she isn’t his wite «Let's say acquaintance of the p isn’t your wife yet, and never may be.”” how you confuse ove, Barbara hat is it to come after acquaintance not put—your choice?” sugge: who always had a turn for romantic terms in ‘Wife will do,” remarked Patience, curtly; “1 dare say the word won't come a bit too often him now. Go ou, and that when wo ‘Will tell her what we think of her. “Say,” dictated Patience, with an annihila- ting gla) across a iy on, new that the end “are, my dear cousia, your “Don’t be sttipid, Barbara,” repiroved ‘Pa- tience.” ‘Pion it ap like an ordinary.letter, letter,” I maintai: isn’tanordipary iv 7 = , “we hope she will ‘quiet ital. ane ‘her on ber ar- ry. t brain. . wuNow, Dorothy, read it over to us,” was the “As if we hadn’ ing “It's no wonder that I have been}! tted our poor eisest; you were 4°! conftsir Tec emt OM Bic. I can now see how it Las oc don’t stop to correct,” eried I. captering } befire she hai begun, ‘if we don’s bear 4b ae is, how wre we to propose amend ments! read it diere %F » 1 think.” acbil. “Ut speaks in hieroglyphics. terruptagein. It does tdo justi: to hear of Wig approaching — + <Oryour approaching,’ corrected Patience, recognizing her own iden. “Happiness, aud Lope it won't last a-sort of dash there, as tt an error tected aud nipped in the bud— wije will aecept our friendthip w which won't be yet. We were very sorr; cover amd tell us gre '—another dash there— self. O, thee says she rem ber, bi won't bother.” The plan succeeded better than could have been expected, for Dorothy didn't leave h piace at thedeyonport again until the letter was writien. She pretended not to want to read this seeend effort alond tous, butJooked suspiciously pleased when we dectined to take any refusal, and she read it with a self-appreciation that was deliciously unctuous. Really, it read very well, too. Yet, to watch it folded‘and sealed, seemed mal too, and I’m sure } detected awrin- kle on Dorothy's forebead while she had been reading it, which had never been seen there a bit befbre. But now that it was composed and imdlite, what was to be done with it? This wasaques- tion of moment—ot a many moments. “Ifwe give the letter to one of the servants to post, everybody will be talking,” said Pa- tience, impressively. «Everybody. T assented, wondering a little, though why we had never thought of this with regard to those previous frequent legters—but of course a thought takes a longtime to matare. if it isa good theught. “One of us must go,” decided Dorothy; “you may as well, Joan. But Joan’ did not catch with any eagerness at the proposal—had, indeed, astrong objection to it. we always intended to take a walk togethe: morning, and in that very direction? Un t i what 60 natural as to tak the letter with us, and drop it into the postofiic © passed? “Atany rate,” mr Joy struggling in her face, “we shall not called upon to write again to Max very soon. “All the better,” put in Patience. <-We sonkdonly get unpleasantly commente on if we did,” added Joan. “But in future, you see,” suggested T, asa we should be able to address There's a coufurt. Now, then, a i c i ty eae ent me WOMEN Ce mo AULeL os ina | Cia, tat, while retaloing a @ut eure look purely white. If a scarlet ground, howev- ed. berries and fill up the olored flowers of the iu:mor- yean also be made of tiny | lively palliativ our letters to his w crowd.”” «How contemptuonsty you speak, Barbara,” said Dorothy, in a tone of mild reproach, “Well, aren't we a crowd?” f aaked, “ard more than that, aren't we a crowd without a solitary t among ws?” many, “DP wish Max h for ome of us. ‘Three is, after all number; but four —* + Four is terrific, traordinary energy. “Four !* Techoed, “wh we were forty at le: in the streets walking lessly, irretrievably unmarriageable.” An¢d then it happened. I'm sure I a at it happened. J affirm that the first twinkle was | Joan has told me since that mine. Dorothy asserts that she 's. And Patience never can be sure that she didn’t catch the first in exactly how or why, or who began i in Dorothy's the first was is saw the first in Pat doan’s. Perhaps we were all right, too. At any rate, the fact stands where itwas. The twinkle in somebody's eye brought a twinkle in somebody else’s, and inabont half a minute we were all in the very middle of a long, hearty irrepressible laugh. MAN's INHUMANITY TO WoMAN.—It makes one’s blood run chill to read the disclosures. re- garding the fate of Anna Follen, the poor 5 Albans girl who was so wickedly betrayed by inhuman monsters, and then sent to Canada to ve criminally treated for the concealment of their crimes. From the investigations it ap- pears that she was subjected to indescribable crue so ed way down stairs, and pleaded earnestly again for fire. It was again denied her, but she was given a Lg of brandy and sent back. She came a night late apartments or a fire, a @ that she should dic if she could not have warmth. She was sent back with the promise of a cow-hiding if she came again, and next morning was found dead in her bed, beyond the reach of earthly torture and shame. Her dreadful fate may not be wholly in vain—it will not. if the eyes of the people may be opened so that they shall learn to cast the stones of public indignation where they belong, and hold the scoundrel, who is really most guilty, at least equally responsible with his suffering victim, and this it seems to be doing in the vicinity where it occurred, to some extent. PRAYER AND Puizes.— the Influence of Devo- tion.—The following account ofa queer speech is from the Pall Mall Gazette: «In a discus- sion at the last Tasoting of the Portsmouth school board.on the question whether the Lord's Prayer should be repeated by the head teachers in the board schools, Commander Key said: ‘If it were desirable that prayer should be used in the House of Commons and in the army an navy, how much more was it desirable that it should be used in schools. After great battles it had been the custom to have prayers, but after the battle of Trafalgar, in which Lord Neilson «ied, prayer was omitted, and, a gale having spr up, a number of valuable prizestaken from the French and Spaniards were sacrificed.’ Mr. Emana@ asked Com- mander Key if he was of the opinton that those prizes were lost because prayer was neglected, to which Commander Key replied, ‘ Yes, T think they were.’ The result of the discussion was the adoption of the motign for the repetition of the Lord's Prayer.” Tre Empress E London correspondent | of Daily Post writes:—“1 hear from a well- informed source that the Imperial tamily at Chisiehurst are left with an income of about £12,000. The Spanish estates and private prop~ erty of the Empress are worth £6,000 year, and the sale of her diamonds, jeweley_and pictures produced about £120,000. The Emperor bad hardly any income of hisown. He might have enriched himself and eg grr eolossal tor- tme to his wife and son, but if be did not dis- damm to contemplate the possibitity of fight or exile, re) certainly ted to take precantions against the future, which, judging after the eyent, no one would now pronounce to have been unpise. Napoleon was content to enrich others. He received iargesums of the French treasure, ‘but all the moneys not claimed by state or househoid orpgnees was spent im sub- scriptions to associations ‘for pnblic objects, charitable institutions, or private benevolence. SwinBURNez once expressed @ desire to be introduced to Carlyle. The tatter, on bein told of this by a common friend, replied, “ Te! Mr. S— that I shall be glad to meet him, if you tell him what J think of him.” “Certainly,” said the friend, “whatshall I tell htm?” «Teli ee “that I think he is ea man sitfing neck-deep in a sewer, and adding to it.” : . tell the health inspector, Iinspecter would tell the police, the lice would the dead-cat man, and the aolt-est man would in- form her what dayof = ph tetony 'y Of the week she could remove the latter to individuals. Loring.” a y dea cousin.” That's my bit, and very | tdoes it tell”*inquired Patience, with | to Dorothy's | Compasliuon. My dear cowéin;, ware are gind | ing arousal pillars, the wreaths ene loediy be tov 1 th age enone to res quae a greatdeal)—t is better to make ume tm | mense drooping ‘wreath of cvergreen®, boT!y, | ‘mbers your wife very well. and | regrets he skonld have chosen her’— | sh again.” ‘The valued sympathy and kind and generous good wishes you bespeak are yours, it they are anybody’s, as they aren’t ours, and that we hope soon to make the acquaintance of semebody with more —, We can’t say your | wite again, because she is not. Of your choice. | And that when we do, we will tell her. And we hope she will come with you soon, to stay in our quiet, old affections.’ That's al. You certainly had no right to call this an ordinary letter, Pa- tience. Cheer up, Dorothy, theré is materint here for a tine composition. Try again, and we ‘ell, at last we made the only arrangement which we could amicably make. This was fur all of us to go together—for awaik. Briskly we impressed that fact upon each other. Hadn't 2 Dorothy, with a feeble | whole surfa » Wishing we were not b ped so} cared quite a usual struck in Dorothy, with ex- | ~ IL feel to-day as it We shall look forty out and two. We look , forty here, all crowded ina room. We always | I look forty of us now—all totally, hope- during the last two or three days of | her life. While suffering bitter and almost un- endurable » She was taken from her room and placed in @ miserable attic, without fire. She asked for it, begged for it, but her entreat- ies availed nothing. A night or two before she died, her sufferings from pain and cold became it, that she left her wretched room, work- the night before her death—and piteously begged for a change of dessiccation. The bottom of the shelves is of slate, one-half inch apart, so as to allow the air to'circulate | around the fruit. A third layer of straw is spread over the shelves betore the fruit is placed on them. Nor more than two orthree Ia) or apples are put on a shelf, with the exception of russets. which are stowed a foot or more in thick- ness. The center space of the building is used for packing and st center of the ridge of the roof is a large venti- lator. There isalso a chimney and a brick-stove in the building, but there is scarcely any neces- sity for using it. »Where brick tainable, is So as to auswer al equally well. fio keep better in tight barrels, better when the bargls are laid than when standing upright. amt | better in a coul dry cellar thanout-doors,- on the side only Brcenats0Ns. air. 3 t take np great length of time, while, in ail such arrwg metts, the simplest kind amd the quickest done are usually the most gracctul. It tf often the custom 10 sew the fohage on jo strips of walico sti = and Bind ic @ Sdccetion of green | tinuously together wpon a | 4 wire, such a5 Usd in manulacturmg | or muslin, or to use lo own upon them; Dianches, bormd 01 Loup-skirts, is a far better method. The first piece of green meee | ~ 2 pieces a few inches of bare stem for binding | they shoult be trimmed ‘to a bgt ad wreath should have « long stalk, and over, an size forthe thick: ness of the wreath. For ev, and if there is not em really Wandsome—iand they jaurel, Wruke. and arramge branches of 1 spruce or dcmlock arcund the tep ur capital each pillar, not attempting to eutwine ihe shart atall. A very graceful way of decorating a ive pecé of stone-wark, a font ior large, m, instance, if ina cliurch, or a statue, or a door way, velhgsrioe) 3 cut niches, is to take a few prafiches, and, without trying | closely, lay them down in the auanner of reath, aronbd the ase of the pe | destal, or along the front of the sculptered niche, or iu the angle of a recess. In arrang! the decorations of a hall or gallery nlied wi ary, this would be fo and rapid method. For picture-frames ané mir rors, there is noth garlands of ground pine. or coral pine, inter spersed with the bright, orange-scariet berrics of the bitter-sweet; snowberriecs thickly inter mixed with the dark glossy green of ihe laure!, | and the whole crowned with # bunch of vari mingled evergreens, will also produce a fine effect. Fern leaves so well preseed that they will not curl, are very destrdble for such contra! boquets. For large green Wreaths, great quau- lities of hemlock, sprace and fir are required. Box is very beautiful, but is mot to be had ir large quantities, and should be kept tor smaller : y and laure! are aleg very beautifal tor deceration. ‘or quite sm: wreaths. suc! lines in delicately | 4-7. Wairixe | caryed wood-work, or for the tracery of open wreaths. Iy as are used for tollowing the devices in wire, myrtle or periwinkle is very lovely. For all these purposes, variegated fol age is not usually much to be recommen aud when it is used, it should not be n Jee darker kind. It looks well if ar- nged massive wreath and hung in the strongest light, where it will either produce a | harmonious effect of color, or,be neat enough to | the eye to show what it is. Unless the foliage is nearly white, however, it should not be used with that ran on a background of » Whether light ox dark, and even then dark nis cold abd heavy for it to rest upon; crimson has a much better effect. In all arrangements we are supposing that green forms the ornament, as no fowers are used. But if flowers are desired, it will answer better to pat them im aster ihe wreaths are fastened in their places. It is very easy to slip in the stalks, or if mounted on wire, — the mass of foliage, and the floWers will be firmly attached, yet not so closely Dut that they can be ensily removed if they fade | too quickly. The flowers should be #0 placed as to follow in the fal of their foliage the direction they will of the leaves of the wreaths. Monograms, ciphers, or «devices surrounded with @ wreath, are very easily made. The let- tets should be traced upon a stiff piece of can old English letters are the prettiest to use the mottoes or i in outline cpon the canvas, a strong so! gum should be spread all over It, omitti spaces within the ontlines of the letters, a overed with white ever! or anything in the vegetable or snowberrie = preferred, u ters with gold- telle species. ‘Th sprays of box, myrtle, hemlock or juniper. Scarlet letters aré quite effective, but golden are the prettiest. For Fracefully-formed pieces | of green should be laid either way in the hand and joined at the center with some feathery ‘a¥s to conceal the thread or twine. Then lay them on the frame, leaving the center bunches at the top and bottom. Small nails will attach it securely to the frame, which will make a pretty ornament for many places, either in | A. church or parlor decorations. Qak’ and laurel leaves make-a beautiful frame wreath. Sprays | h ied with snowber- | ‘S$ aré also eflective. A lvop of ribbon fasten- | ed to the frame serves to suspend it im a good n. Wreaths of mixed flowers are difficult to manage. They require a delicate eye for words on a white groun arranging the frame jolly and evergreens mi r positi combining color, and the lightest of fiugers for arranging flowers, yet they are ®0 they give such pleasure. that a litc worthy of being taken in acquiring the knack of arranging them. A few simple flowers are far better than a great variety. It is an expensive mistake to suppose that quantities of flowers, and those of rand varieties, are required for adorning the harging little gra-teuses | myrtle, smilax or some mith afew delicate drooping h their feathery ‘ays, are - ping dente | Wid | intermixed with the brilliant flowers of the | y EMPL@ scarlet geranium, with a drop of gum-water or | MRS. 5 of each tlower toprevent | _ EXRRESS | ing, make the loveliest or | KX, - garlands tor corsage and head-dresses. Roses, | ways | lovely. In the mixed wreaths, where a line OF | some dark evergreen supports little knots of | dress or the hair. wreaths male of iv: beaatiful er. wit! flowers mingled wi all that are ne ded. Sprays of drooping mucilage in the cent its petals from drop azaleas and little sprays of lilac are flowers, white and scarlet with their own soft, velvety e prettiest we have seen. Use the smallest of bon- wire Sg which to bind the wreaths, and tie them wi each end and working toward t) | eee mingles them fresh, and is not discernible, while it ati much to their eftectiveness.—Springfeld Repub- ican. A Fruit House, and How toMake It. ‘The essential conditions for preserving apples or other fruits mthe most perfect state, tur as long a time as possible, are: First.—Coolnessand evenness of temperatare. A uniform temperature of 36> is the most favor able, and from this there should be no greater variation than 4°, After steady cold weather sets in this degree of coolness is easily main- tained; but prior to that season it requires con- siderable attention. Whenever the temper- ature in the fruit-house rises above 40° in day time, all ventilators have to be closed until eve- hen ney are opened again and left so ni during the digh' co Drea of the temperature without | @ Exclusion of light is desirable, | but not absolutely necessary. ‘These conditions exist in most good cellars, | LEY. but when more room for keeping fruits has to be | P,P. Lirrux & Provided, it will be fonnd cheaper to build a | tu muse than a cellar. A friend mses, with good results, a fruit-honse built of brick, eigh- | jong. The walls | Mrs. teen feet wide and thirty fee are twelve inchesthick aad al iy feet high. Against their inner sile are spiked studs, 4x6, » and to these is nailed a it The intermediate space of six with dry sawdust. The roof is le covered with slate, and is likewise underlined with a sheet of sawdust, six inches in thickness. | ‘There is a tier of shelves nearly three feet wide and two feet above one another on each sic barreled fruit, At the not easily ob- wooden building may be coustructed Careful observation has convinced us that apples keep better in shallow bins than in | barrels, and that the time sayed in assorting, | and the ease with which deca: specimens can at any time be picked ont, much in favor of bins. When, hewever, apples must be kept in barrels, it is very im it that the barrels are headed up on a cy mena ti and not when the ati is Apples loose than in ory pivact hat te is not pat some ime when’ she war ‘out skating. pea: a ear Beer t dl ARCK Is to have lately: sees on Pane eae ett ‘ant tho aca aay tao! ted pas CRICAGO wants the next a | Ping. rae 's fait. Tn the certain” ‘work! will have @ fair, and in. cette ys) rt : ladies: omar TE ae oats Alege mt | g. dele so ahd on the t ditienttios in ar- Tonging the wreaths which are now #0 oft n need for house and church decorations, atl they bre frequently made in way# th: A | peatte A most effective more appropriate than |W. as stretched upon aheop. The simplest sur a mcipher. Atter they are drawn ngs | Devin & Co NY. | Wahu; 65 a, Ni H. Bacmcarrex, (also Die Sinker,) 302 Pa. avenue. : Es. Grob torr eaves, ising at the | iter into a crown of flowers, are among the th green Berlin wool, beginning at | he center for | wreaths for the head, but when a high caronal | is desired, knots of flowers serve to unite the | two sides. Take care to handle the flowers carefully, and under camelias lay a piece of soft cotton wool, well dampened; th — 's ; Wx fF ARLINGTON Hotes, Vermont ave. and CONTINENTAL oR Barnicn’s Fraxk.ix How Uniox Horst, Bak’ Annee! Co rotice; seh et. bet. Eand F. ALPHABETICAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY: Containing Cavde of ACBRICULTUR. USES. Jous AE ne ALE iets pot dinteteies DE Laxvene & Co. Panam & “ 1 nf! BamLow. 1235 Po. ave. bet_roth and 18th ste fi Fy BB Oey Hall, ¢ 37, Si 4M erect, pear Ony Halle ea ee @' Hares. er. Tiles, Capves ig. ’ EW au 8M Dasidine, Toh & peas | tanta ate LM streg. between Dard wx {Notary Public.) AN a0 % bia L les Byer. cetno ED: Scuminr. Cohaubia baw Brae A Sewecarwe, Internat? Law & Ol Oies, H.W. Brrterenp. Hove Duilding, 1883 F street, AUCTIONFERS. Ba SG Sco BOW. cor, Ba ar and Sh at. Green & Wit Ml, Cor. lb and Deureeie. W. T. Jonyeos, Pa. ave.. corner 31 sreet cast. AWNINGS, FLAGS. &c. Jouy C. Mooan, 713 Market Space M.G. CoreLa vb, 643 La. ave., bet, 6th and 7th ete, BAKERIES. Gro. & Ka apr, 174 Pa, ave . corner ith street. Cuas. M. Lams, Nati Pfe & Broad, 20 B. Capitel at BANDs. - LY Hitt Bawn, 7] 7th street, between G and H. K: ND BAN! Wth et, a5ch at Ru Seat FP. Fexp, Fiecwen. t.0 alent S/H Keknuive, Bist, Belle d Dee tebe seen | BLACKSMITH SHoPs. F. Barscuirs: Horse Shocing. @e 45 & Md ave | Wat, Kineinomh-shipeuithing 60% b8 Weesrer cate | BLEACHERIES, | Wa. H. NaLiey, southweet corver #h and Bete. KSTOR: w: ig t9 ‘Bs. M. BALLANTYNE. Religions e..)4027th st.,cor.D i bas, : Office. SAN, ( Catholic.) 938 hm street, VER & Jack ‘1108 Pa. av. ‘bh ate. eto 4 : a. Manufecturer, 28 ih ab. W. PENTERS AN! Ll APMAS, 208 7th street and Bowtstr, 68 K xch ARRIAGE FACTO: Ropekt BH. Gaanam, 410-12. 5 Gxo. B. HALL, corner Penn. avenue and 13% strest. SP. Dennis, 109 6th #t., W. H. Garces & Bro..6) Penn, avenue S.E. CHINA, GLASSWARE, &c J.W. Borri sk & Bxo. 9233 Pa. av., Metzerott Hall, _ CIRCULATING LIBRARIE: | W.T. Niwao, 817 Penn. avenue, bet. 3d and 43s ste, CLOTHING STORES. WALL Rowi neon & Co..82i Pa. av., bet.9tb & 10th ate. Noau Warken & © a ave.,under Met. Hotel, (N.Y.)-1013 Ps. av., vet. 1th & idthsts, Roman & Cox, 7 7th street, May building. A. Sreavs, Wil Penn [See advertisewente.} GS. ‘oth at. ove ‘enter Market ERS 0) EEDS. eer Bond San ae W, ONFECTIONERIES. ‘ a6 Wienmead Diatng tetaae},S217ch st.,opp. P.O. Pert 3 CONVEYANCER: a. ¥ ‘e.,( Law, Titles, Notary.) KS, SEALING WAX, &e. W. BaRTHOLOMAE, at wholesale, LUZ 7ih street. oo DRUG STORES. D ‘S01 Penna. avenne, corner 34 st, nese, corner New York avenue and 1th st. pOLEY, Sib cust Bena, ave, Capitol Hill x La. avenue, (Our Price,) 3. & W207 st. nw. . PATTERSON, cor. Pa. av. @6thet. cast. veils nas, FEED ANDComMiss! : FLO AND C ON. ‘Tromas & HARDING. cor.7th st. and Maryland ave. | 55 F. ‘DRaNEY, Feed Grein.ac.cor Mass ava Tibet F. A. MBALMERS. M. E. Stoops, Nat. Flowers, 237th st Mis. Drern, 422 lthat., Wash’n, & 129) . Geo'town! FuneralW reaths and Ni |) Preserved & embalmed, |G GOODS 1113 Paes. bet 1th & 12th ste SLOW uc’ to Timmed Winslow 437 Pa. av. URE STORES. Avenue House, 7th st. & Market e (GHT, 42 Pa. ave., near Treas. ier ead a ) AS O at T McKexner & Gon 19 Boar a. Hair Mattresges taken, opened, cleaned, re-made, fod returned i two hur. ' AS ce AW Scsmenn s Cos BoB ar, bot. eh & lohsta, 1c ee houses, &c., 711 D. GE AWELI esos id Pa, ay 9p. Willard’ eats. gi Market Mpace, near eh street, = Chazris A-APreL, corner Band Saute JiapiNcroN, 112 Pennsylvania avenue. & Buo. cor. 4% st. and 8 i Wie: Henzex, so? PL . GUN MAKERS, &c. Jona) Peasery. {also Fishing Tackle,) 628 D st, WORK, ac. GRIFFITH, Ladies’ Hair Dresser, 1314 F st. HARDWARE AND CUT! C. CampBeL, 006 Pa. r2%s Kesxnevy & Co.., a det. eiakrial HOTELS. JOWARD Hotsz, ‘ORMLEY {eed corner 15t AC Es. HB. cor. 1th st. and Pa. ave, Co. A cote an Tas W. wee. PTERWAN. SB th street, opp Patent OMce, | Soobbkebr ign (aed wrsteiRy aad | kcaneae RE Set ar Bt etest, Pape het a 3 5 a. av, Law, Titles. Copve wv Manves & Hotony Tee OTTER Bar. G. W ¥ S¥LVesrem, 1202 7th ER o- ¥ 5 ‘wna, the eteat Aree CosPa as sop.T. DY | Sty. For sale, e's Tth st. by B ae b, | sear 1 Bittiary Satooecorner $& NGERS Lock ‘HS. IW F st, bet on anand tens. | 9°} - & BE Bleacher,025 Pa.ay. w eet ste emi dealer in Sash, Doors & Bim Ports & Usoxam: TK AGENTS. | roasury Dopartment. ‘a. av mud Ji wt. eat. By Kerweny & Bon, 15t) Pur. B. Ween & Co, oH, Penny Coleman, TUCKER & BURRMAN SHIRT F. Devs & Coad » bee, ori FACTORIES. OTHER, ly st., bet. 6th aud A.B. Surrneny & Co ,s0 ES, Warrer D. Wrvrtt. 486 Pen WARDS Co 317 Shy . Exwenr, 12 Pa. a MEY, S19 7t RAN, (also Tio Roofing, Tv AG Harey,69 )) 31-"S). Pa. ave, cr Daxiet Prac: ret w ‘ks, 629 lth street, wear at Pun. ave.. near I7th street . ave, and LT de ot. 8. W. YA’ ws. H_ ADLER, (wholesale only —_—_—_—_—_——SE ee REAL ESTATE AGENTS. OSWELL & © Real Estate Bi Southeast corner @jy #treet and Virgmia arent, out) WASHINGTON, D. 0. HOUSES and LOTS FOR epouses BENTED and SALE NTs COLLECT- wits oocyrerr FRANK BARNUM JUAN BOYLE & co., REAL ESTATE AXY NOTE BROKERS, So, 605 Furrarxra Stgeer, : (Oppodhe Wecanary A handsome Hons on coruer 2st and Hi streete, |AS OFFICES. medere ¥ i+ 5 Wasntnoron Gas LicutComraxt, 403 lh, near. | *"A'Zaq4isere mErowsment, lou time, payne arenue, © ten ~ ee Ls large and emall,on the line of acres in Faug | "Kany terme, ‘Dear Catiett's Station, Va, Will to suit, op easy terme, Naliey from Winchester. Price, ‘of these farms are great bar: Rhode [stand be- ‘small cash payrnent, bal- years, with imterest at 7 gus BuYL ‘Sox, ag orenne, corner a a. ore ot be sold in quanti ‘One of 390 acres ‘miles from Winchester, timber, balance in by large house and acre, Ob easy terms, or wi erty unimproved, but mathes high state of cults ‘Six lots on north side of tween Mth and ith street * B. McGUIKE, EA! ‘A’ AGENT. Loy Rome i306 F. A Gorute R'E. stenue and 12h street, WHoLtsaLe Dealer ty ‘i cat i ty ‘PUrpecs: Washingion, D. C.,